Santa Clara County Local News: Housing


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Image caption: Does California’s signature environmental law protect the state’s scenic beauty, or cause more problems than it solves?
CEQA: The Surprising Story of CA’s Key Environmental Law

The California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, is both the state’s signature environmental legislation, and is also often named as the villain in the state’s housing shortage. But the story may not be that simple.

Image caption: Zoning laws tell you what you can and can't build on the property you own. How does government get away with that?
How Zoning Laws Shape California and Society

Zoning laws determine what can be built and where. These laws have shaped California, but are they really just tools for social engineering? The history of zoning is closely tied to racial segregation, as well as the state's shortage of …

Image caption: Owning homes is the primary way the middle class builds wealth, and an option no longer available to most Californians.
Is California’s Housing Crisis Making Inequality Worse?

California has some of the worst economic inequality in the United States. Is the housing crisis a cause?

Image caption: Thousands of homeowners have been kicked off their fire insurance policies.
California Fire Insurance Crisis: How the State Helps Homeowners

As California insurance companies have revoked the fire policies of thousands of homeowners, the state has taken steps to get them covered again.

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09/06/2024
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With home ownership increasingly surpassing the reach of many Californians and residential real estate prices going up across the board, more people in South County are renting their homes in recent years.

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09/06/2024
A proposal has been floated to develop the Charleston Plaza shopping center in Mountain View into a community of offices, retail and housing.

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09/06/2024
A revised application has been filed for a mixed-use development of offices and 88 housing units on University Avenue in Palo Alto.

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09/06/2024
Amid a Southern California heat wave, about 300 advocates for rent control — with two 10-foot “greedy landlord” puppets — rallied Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, chanting: “The rent is too damn high!”

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09/05/2024
Documents filed with Santa Clara County show planning is underway to develop new housing on the 113-acre site of the former Pleasant Hills Golf Course in east San Jose.

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09/03/2024
A 2.2-acre lot on West San Carlos Street near downtown San Jose is under consideration for development of over 200 units of affordable housing.

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09/03/2024
Some large affordable housing projects are in the pipeline for development along El Camino Real in Palo Alto.

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09/01/2024
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Last year, a renovated San Jose hotel on The Alameda reopened with much fanfare to house homeless residents. But problems have cropped up from the start, according to people who live there.

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08/30/2024
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It’s cheaper to rent a home in San Jose than buy one, though renters still pay steep prices in one of the most costly cities in the nation.

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08/30/2024
The Legislature is willing to guarantee $500 million annually to affordable housing developers, but with a caveat.

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08/30/2024
A large apartment complex in San Rafael’s majority-Latino Canal neighborhood. Latino families in Marin County are far more likely than white families to have trouble making ends meet, a new report finds.

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08/29/2024
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Campbell is adjusting its affordable housing policy in hopes of creating more homes and raking in more development funds, despite an official recommendation not to.

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08/29/2024
A proposal for a 205-unit all-affordable housing development on an empty lot on West Julian Street in downtown San Jose has been filed.

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08/29/2024
The City of Saratoga has partnered with nonprofit Our City Forest to offer free or subsidized trees as part of a program to encourage residential tree planting.

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08/28/2024
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Two projects in Santa Clara County are receiving federal funds to renovate housing for farmworkers and homeless veterans.

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08/28/2024
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Kay Bae, the owner of Orchid Cleaners, is a Los Gatos resident who’s been running her dry cleaning business, located in the Ace Hardware building on Los Gatos Boulevard, since 1988.

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08/28/2024
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North San Jose will see a transformational change along one of its busiest transit corridors as more affordable housing, walkways and bike and bus lanes are developed — thanks to a multimillion-dollar state grant aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

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08/27/2024
A proposed market-rate housing project for Lick Avenue in San Jose has been updated to instead build 215 affordable homes as the first phase of a 565-unit project.

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08/27/2024
San Jose City Councilmember Arjun Batra joined in opposition of a planned Santa Clara County purchase of the South San Jose interim housing sites for use in a jail diversion program.

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08/24/2024
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Campbell is slated to rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars for affordable housing annually, thanks to a decision to collect developer fees from projects without housing.

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